Water Industry Needs Open Standards

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Water Industry Needs Open Standards
Open standards are long overdue in the water industry notorious for its stagnation and lack of transparency. 
They are an opportunity for desalination community to initiate the industry transformation and turn from passive observer to powerful influencer. 

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  1. If you mean universal standards for drinking water quality and recommendations on treatment technology and analytics look at the WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. WHO also recently produced comprehensive Guidelines for potable water reuse.   www.who.int

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    1. It's quite clearly necessary to comply with standards, however it is not only the WHO that claims authority over this.  Here in the U.S. there is also NSF.org, and in fact it appears as if countries are free to comply with whatever or not, going by their own standards.  As for NSF.org, it appears as if they regulate not only for the U.S. but also for what is produced in the U.S. and sent to other parts of the world.  It appears as if those claiming the right to assess and verify standards should work together, while clearly there is a need for such service providers to be in compliance.

  2. Could it be that imposing standards would leave a big number of providers out of compliance?  Perhaps it would be best to go about this on a timetable, such that the necessary new standards could be accounted for in a practical way.  It may also be necessary to get feedback from the providers, such that the standards are made to be realistic.